Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 2 | Parents believe the recession may be having an effect on some people 's ability to pay the £10,000 a year fees , but the college needs the money . |
| 3 | A senior cataloguer who has brought in significant new business through proven negotiating skills may be offered a Deputy Directorship at £20–25,000 . |
| 4 | That line of analysis tends to indicate that when one is interpreting s740(3) and the meaning of the expression " relevant income " ( meaning " income which can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for an individual or for enabling a benefit to be provided for him " ) the taxpayer may be having the benefit of a slightly generous interpretation if the Revenue permit , in any year in which income arises , the amount of the relevant income in that year to be reduced by the amount of expenditure incurred in that year . |
| 5 | At many large computer centres they are literally costed in money ; or each user may be allotted a ration of time , measured in seconds , and a ration of space , measured in ‘ words ’ . |
| 6 | A LIFESPAN database will typically consist of many hierarchical package structures and within these structures a module instance may be referenced a number of times . |
| 7 | Many chemical treatments are effective in killing active fungi in wood but , in an old and complicated structure , the practical difficulty may be to reach the diseased parts without pulling the whole structure expensively to bits . |
| 8 | It is also worth noting that Lawton claims that the HMIs may be pushing a model of curriculum planning ( based upon statements of aims and objectives ) which is out of date an issue we return to later in the chapter , and in Chapter 8 . |
| 9 | Although the extraction of semantic information from dictionary definitions may be considered an objective in itself , many researchers pursue a specific application , or at least have a range of applications in mind . |
| 10 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 11 | Discontinuous conceptions of technological change may be termed a ‘ shifting ’ model . |
| 12 | It is common ground between the parties , and , on the basis of earlier cases , rightly so , that the visitor to a university may be given an exclusive jurisdiction , e.g. , to decide disputes arising under the statutes of the university , as may visitors to such eleemosynary foundations as schools , colleges and dioceses . |
| 13 | This reasoning seems slightly artificial where the essence of what is alleged is fighting , and the better course may be to charge the person fighting with assault , or affray , or both . |
| 14 | The effect of such a provision may be to replace the normal absolute obligation to deliver on the agreed date with an obligation to use best endeavours . |
| 15 | And in between the P C which we find on many peoples desks may be emulating a character terminal , may be emulating erm an X-terminal to provide that user interface to an individual . |
| 16 | At present , only shareholders may be offered the choice . |
| 17 | Alternatively , an SBU may be following a product-differentiation policy , in which case , depending on the type of industry , progress in product development and field tests , success in taking out patents , the results of early market-research tests and various other indicators provide early signals of whether the investment policy is likely to be successful . |
| 18 | The re-building of the science base must be given a priority in the longer term planning of the University . |
| 19 | Participants signed a protocol to a treaty creating a Central American Parliament , providing that deputies should be elected no later than 36 months after the treaty was constitutionally ratified by each state , and that such elections should take place in accordance with the electoral laws of the respective countries . |
| 20 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 21 | Labour 's reaction to that is that local authority inspection should be made the universal norm , with local authorities inspecting the schools which only they are allowed to run . |
| 22 | No one would ever suggest that President Tudjman should be awarded a Nobel prize for the tact and sensitivity with which he asserted Croatian independence . |
| 23 | In which case , Martin Bicknell 's posterior must be feeling a little tender . |
| 24 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 25 | Under new Law Society regulations the articled clerk must be paid an ‘ acceptable ’ salary , the intention being that this shall be at least equivalent to the undergraduate maintenance grant , grossed up to cover 52 weeks instead of 38 and further increased to take account of the income tax and national insurance contributions payable . |
| 26 | Taking both these factors into account , I conclude that a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence should be given the opportunity to make representations in writing to the Secretary of State about the length of his tariff period before it is set . |
| 27 | Since the defence must be given a copy of the statement of a proposed witness who has not made a deposition , it must follow that , if a Crown witness 's evidence is intended to depart significantly from his deposition and to be based on his statement to the police , it is the duty of the Crown to give the defence a copy of that statement in advance of the hearing . |
| 28 | Yet , in April , the Executive Committee of the National Union of Textile Workers ( NUTW ) declared its intention of demanding a restoration of the 5 per cent on base wages lost in 1921 and that the cost of living addition should be altered every three months — an action which would benefit the textile workers . |
| 29 | Professor Stephen Hawking must be making a beeline to Washburn HQ even as I write ! |
| 30 | A report , launched last week by inquiry chairman Anthony Scrivener QC , says local authorities should be given the cash to provide more bail support schemes . |